so she tries not to get involved, to leave it to her advisers. and her advisers as well as the british government are still opposed to margaret marrying peter townsend. the prime minister said if you marry townsend you ve got to abandon your royal status. people were thrilled and delighted margaret will become mrs. peter townsend, for someone who s been brought up like she s been brought up this is not an alluring prospect. for three weeks they re harried by the press. they go from place to place, agnizingly trying to make up their minds. sensationalism. and the whole thing turned into a circus. wherever princess margaret went, people in the crowd shouted go on maggie, marry him anyway. at this stage it was still
way. my father was asked to leave the country, the country he served as a fighter pilot during the second world war, and i think that was very difficult for him. princess margaret finds this incredibly hurtful. two years when you re 23, two years is a long time. the queen hopes she has defused the scandal. but two years later townsend returns. excitement bubbles like champagne in london as group captain peter townsend returns from diplomatic duties in belgium to call on princess margaret. and perhaps a climactic phase opens in the much publicized royal romance that s had the western world agog. margaret is 25 and legally able to decide who she should marry. she doesn t need the consent of the queen. the queen does what she always does in a crisis, which is to bury her head in the sand.
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grocery store, fas nicinated bi carts, the way people got food and everything. whole thing was extraordinarily alien to her. she is shy. she is very stiff. but she tries. what s happening here is something that s very characteristic of queen elizabeth, which is that when people criticize, she listens and she changes. but will this modern queen approve of her sister s latest romance? four years after parting from peter townsend, prince margaret has a new and unconventional boyfriend. he is a brilliant photographer. long before he meets prince margaret, he is has made his name. he has a very good social background. he is not an aristocrat. he is absolutely at the cutting edge of the approaching 60s
and meeting her julie andrews and margaret, who love the st stars, is just in seventh he heaven. you there having a ball. just a they like to party in london, they also like to party in the states, and they never give up for the entire trip. hollywood laid out its red carpet in what was perhaps the most potent social event in its illustrious history. it was the night the real-life princess and her prince went to a hollywood ball. they were usually the last t go at parties people they staye until 2:00 a.m. 3:00 a.m. when everybody else was exhausted. after one very slight party, princess margaret, it was reported, was a bit indisposed the next day. there is considerable criticism on the british press that they are partying a lot. when news breaks of